Modern information systems rely more and more on combining
concurrent, distributed, mobile and heterogenous components. This
move from old systems, typically conceived in isolation, induces
the need for new languages and software architectures. In
particular, coordination languages have been proposed to cleanly
separate computational aspects and communication. On the other
hand, software architects face the problem of specifying and
reasoning on non-functional requirements. All these issues are
widely perceived as fundamental to improve software productivity,
enhance maintainability, advocate modularity, promote reusability,
and lead to systems more tractable and more amenable to
verification and global analysis.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
on the foundations of component-based computing, coordination, and
software architectures. Topics of interest include (but are not
limited to):

Papers describing original work are solicited as contributions to
Foclasa. Submitted papers should be limited to 6 000 words,
preferrably formatted according to the Fundamenta Informaticae
style (available at http://fi.mimuw.edu.pl/submissions.html).

They should be emailed as PostScript (PS) or Portable Document
Format (PDF) files to jmj@info.fundp.ac.be.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published as a technical report of the
Institute of Informatics at the University of Namur, and will
be available at the workshop.

PUBLICATION

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Funda-
menta Informaticae journal, with February 2003 as expected publi-
cation time.